HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081068710
Bassin · #1081068710
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Loima, Turkana Central, Turkana South
Sub-basin area
159,9km²
Upstream area
160,1km²
Discharge
0,44m³/s
Mean elev.
544m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 117.1 km²73.5% of basin
- 22.2 km²13.9% of basin
- 19.9 km²12.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,7°C
Annual rain
189mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
86mm/an
PET
1 994mm
AET
157mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
332cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)